Travel Blogs from Cincinnati, United States

We embark on our journey to the west for the year 2012, we plan to leave on Sunday April the 15th. Our journey will be a road trip, with the goal in mind to see as much of this land, the U.S.A. westward. This will be a combined trip of road ...

... . Kind of like back in college. Should be fun. The day started with a way-to-early 7:15 a.m. flight from Cincinnati to Miami. We luckily found a direct flight (both ways) that was also the least expensive. Direct flights are great ...

... , a once mostly German neighborhood that's now hipster central which is one of the largest concentrations of Italianate architecture. Unfortunately, I hit Cincinnati on an especially hot day in early July so was in no mood to spend much time outside. I ...

Today was pleasantly uneventful. I took a cab to the airport in time for my 11:00 flight. Due to a stiff tail wind, we arrived home a full hour early, which is always good. Now I have about a week and a half turn-around time before leaving for my spring ...

Today is the big day! Only two days later than we anticipated. An unexpected knee injury and the prospect of someone subletting our room for the summer made getting our room unpacked and organized a necessity and a challenge. Lew was the sweetest, and ...

... We board for the last time our motor coach for our trip to Auckland's International Airport where we will board our Quantas jet back to the states and landing in Los Angeles, a twelve hour journey. How can we sum up our trip in one word? It would be ...

We're down to a week before we arrive in Reykjavik. If you checked the blog around this time, the picture of the Iceland Air 757 currently used as the blog icon is the ONLY picture we've taken of anything that's directly associated with Iceland. Larry ...

... up to Ohio, flying in and out of Cleveland and renting a car/staying in budget motels to visit two theme parks - PKI near Cincinnati and the legendary Cedar Point.
We first went to Paramount's King's Island, mainly to ride Beast and Son of Beast, ...

Arrived in time to check-in and head out to the Cincinnati Reds BB game against the New York Mets...It was recommended by a Cincy Fan to park across the river in Kentucky and walk across the Ohio river to the "The Great American Ball Park" ..I gorgeous ...

... , using keynote/powerpoint presentations. The objective is to engage students in conversational English. Since the presentations are about Cincinnati, Ohio and America the students will also get an education on life in America. Gene and I have ...

... main stop in Cincinnati, the Underground Railroad Museum. This is a newer museum, and it is EXCEPTIONAL, and worth a trip to Cincinnati on it s own. I'd strongly recommend it because it gives you a real sense of the dangers and risks taken by the slaves ...

... are packed, I'm just waiting to go to the airport to get on my plane. My flight leaves around 4:30 pm from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport and goes up to Canada (eh!). Then I get to travel 12 hours across the pond to jolly ole ...

... springsteen) podcasts (radiolab, new yorker short, the dissolve and a boogie nights q&a) and started the history lecture series.
Cincinnati is nice and quiet, sparcely populated like Buffalo but by a river. Ate lunch and meditated briefly by a quiet ...

... the opportunity to see my relatives. Then Spencer and Matisse and I went to Graeter's where we enjoyed some delicious famous Cincinnati ice cream while chatting and watching the sun set. When we got home we watched some Modern Family (hilarious show that ...

Well, it’s been almost exactly one month since I’ve been back in the USA. Paris has been in the news a lot lately, and the reports make me very thankful that I’m home. But I must admit that I miss Paris terribly. I miss ...

So I have to update this blog with my house details. Here are all the pictures of my house when I purchased it. So the furniture, deco, etc is not mine. It looks so much better in these photos than what it looks like now... except the photos with the ...

... shops, clothing stores along Main Street and even a shoe repair shop! Leaving the area, I continued through many towns toward Cincinnati. Small towns slowed traffic but the sights were interesting. This included the Zebra lying in a ...

**update** while walking on the Loveland Trail, the owner spotted us and he explained that the weekend was not going very well and he took it out on us and apparently a little girl saw us and ran behind the castle. I got a chance to explain ...